For the whole of Europe, this is a very tragic plague. Due to the spread of the Black Death, 25 million people died, accounting for one-third of the total population of Europe at that time (another way of saying it is more than 30 million).
The Black Death is a plague. There are many black spots on the patient's skin, and it is impossible to cure the infected person. It first broke out along the Mediterranean coast, and then swept across Europe in 1348- 145 1 year. The reason for the plague was that the sanitary conditions at that time were extremely poor, and the hatred of cats by religion at that time led to a large number of cats being slaughtered, which led to a large number of mice breeding and eventually led to the plague.
The scale of this plague is unimaginable. More than half of the residents of Florence, Italy, died, and more than 50,000 people died in Marseille, France. Even the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France was stopped by the plague. Due to the high population density in cities, the mortality rate in most cities is above 50%. Only a few countries such as Poland and Belgium have fewer deaths. Although it has been more than 500 years, it is still creepy to think of it!
This is a terrible plague, which spread to Europe, Asia and Africa, and claimed one third of the population in Europe at that time. In a short period of eight years from 1347 to 1353, the population of continental Europe died of the Black Death, which was more than the population lost in Europe during the Second World War. The plague originated in Messina, a port city in Sicily, southern Italy, and then quickly swept across Europe, with few countries and cities spared. The footsteps of the plague finally came to Russia, and one-third to one-half of Russia's population died soon. It may be that the cold weather in Russia stopped the pace of the plague. Finally, 1353, the great plague finally died. In this long-lasting plague, some cities suffered heavy losses, such as Florence, Italy, where 80% of the population died and the streets were full of corpses, so it was too late to clean them up.